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I start our piece with slow fluid arm movements and we use the tool of accumulative canon to make this beginning section effective

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We experimented with over lapping canon during our insomnia section with Cerys being last to show our power over her in the piece. Our movement causes a response from Cerys, just like us controlling her mind causes her insomnia.

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We found that this tool worked well for us as it created interesting movement. We also applied the appropriate intention and dynamic to reflect the state of sleep we are resembling.

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Names of everyone in Group:
Yana Jones
Cerys Buckland
Ellie Taylor
Lydia Hughes
Name of Piece:
Awaken from this Illusion
Bio of Piece (Concise breakdown/overview of your narrative/what you are exploring).

To include music/audio used. Has it been edited and finalised?

Narrative: different states of sleep, going from lucid dreaming through sleep insomnia to nightmares and sleep paralysis.

Music:
Its ok, you’re ok – Bonjr
Dreams – Nuages
Human – Sevdaliza
Rough overview of Props, costume, important lighting or features. Props- Pillows
Costume- Flowy top, bare legs, resemble night gown.
Lighting-  Match the mood of each state nightmares red light, lucid dreams soft lighting, insomnia bright white lights and sleep paralysis, mix of strobe and dark lights
Discuss structure of the piece, and how you plan to apply/explain/execute your narrative accordingly to the structure. Structure-
Lucid dreams > Sleep insomnia > Nightmare > Sleep paralysis.
Each section focuses on a different person each of whom are suffering from one of the states of sleep and the others are representing what’s happening in their mind.
Frustrations and blockages? We had ideas to be very specific to the music within certain sections, this is something we struggled to do and create movement too, however we have now started this section and are moving on.

Utilizing the pillows in a way that’s more creative and mature.

Injuries within the group.
How much have you got left to go? How do you plan on structuring that?
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‘We have 3 minutes and have designated ourselves 3 more working weeks left until the assessment.

We plan to accomplish all setting and structure within 3 Deadlines within the 1st week. Each deadline will be the completion of 1 min of content.

2nd week is a week for us to get our costume together, develop/rework/layer the piece.

3rd week, solidifying everything we have laid out, and allowing a week to clean and work solely on intent and performance quality.’ 2 major sections left to do and then all that is left to do is clean and link sections together.

Aim is to have the piece completed before Wednesday so we have Thursday and Friday of the last week before Christmas to start piecing together and cleaning the performance.

Over half term we are all going to individually work on our roles, ie music, lighting costumes etc.

First week back after half term we plan to continue cleaning and developing our final product to something we are happy with.

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We created this starting position with the intention of each person portraying their section in this pose. Mine section is lucid dreams so my uplifting arms show this. I am also holding Lydia up as her section is nightmares it is a lot darker.

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Ellie is portraying sleep paralysis by showing she is trying out get up but she is trapped.

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This is footage from the end of our first rehearsal. We have began with the lucid dream section and developed this by adding accumulative canon

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This is the motif we created in a rehearsal we had at the weekend, we began to experiment with different choreographic devices such a overlapping in this video.

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In this rehearsal chad gave feedback which made it easier moving forward with adding and adapting choreography

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This rehearsal we were focused on applying the feedback received from Chad. We had to take the idea of us controlling Cerys more literally and we experimented with that.

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canon section we created in todays rehearsal.

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working on minimal movement to perform whilst ellie and cerys do their insomna duet.

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This is Ellie’s solo that she taught us to be added into the nightmares section

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Lydia’s solo which will be starting the nightmares section as this is the part she will be highlighted in

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Finally Cerys taught her solo that she had created

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this is footage of the first time we ran all the sections together with transitions. It was a bit messy and there was some timing issues but we clarified this afterwards.

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Lydia hand movement to be used in transition from insomnia to nightmares

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Lydia doing the canon sequence we created today.

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1. Repition
2. Retrograde
3. Embelishment
4. Addition
5. Fragmentation

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For our opening we used 'Its ok, you're ok'- Bonjr. This song was perfect for our lucid dreams section. We wanted to feel weightless when performing this section and this song defiently helps.
Youtube.com. (2020). YouTube. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou-rVp6EbhM [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].

'Dreams'- Nuages
In this song there is a section of speech. We felt this really wokred with our number. We printed out the words from this and choreographed gesteral movements with our pillows to each word. This was an interesting and creative way to create content.

Youtube.com. (2020). YouTube. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMHHwJ9Eqk [Accessed 9 Jan. 2020].

The last song we used for our accompaniment was 'Human'- Sevdaliza. This piece of music had a lot more grit and base to it, making it more intense. We decided to use this would work best in the nightmares and sleep paralysis section.

Youtube.com. (2020). YouTube. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7SclAXoQw [Accessed 10 Jan. 2020].

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We took inspiration from Wayne Mcgregor when choreographing our piece. In his piece 'Atomos' he uses moments of stillness. We agreed that this would be a bold choice and would be aesthetically pleasing for our work.

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Cunningham uses chance when creating his work. As a group we decided that this would be an interesting and creative way of setting transition pathways and formations. We used his tool of tossing coins to set formations and this worked well.

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One of the formations we used from tossing the coins

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We choreographed the ending section in this video, there was some timing issues but we went on to fix them

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We perform this move to make it look like we are dragging Ellie down as she is representing sleep paralysis. We decided to change it as we didn’t think it looked very effective.

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We changed the move to this so it looked more professional

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Experimenting with overlapping canons

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We used Ryan Heffingtons choreography for the Sia music video 'chanderlier' as inspiration for our piece. He uses a lot of quirky and ugly movement which we decided would look good in our nightmares sections.